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Our life is full of empty space.

~Umberto Eco

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

~Umberto Eco

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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

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I write what I write.

~Umberto Eco

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 5th, 1932

Died: February 19th, 2016

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